well covered
well covered is the alternative spelling of well-covered.
Meaning of well-covered
Adjective
well-covered (comparative more well-covered, superlative most well-covered)
- Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
- He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 33, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published...
- Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
- That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes.1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC
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